Avehi : Empowering People Through Media.
This film traces the development of the vision and activities of Avehi, a media resource centre over the years, to show how a small group of committed people have been able to use audio – visuals creatively to promote social awareness. It documents different activities of Avehi and comments on how these activities have helped various institutions, organisations and grassroots – level workers in their educational and developmental work.
- Col / 30 mins
- Languages: English-Hindi
- Contribution Rate: Rs.250/-
Identity – The Construction Of Selfhood
This film questions the idea of the self as a fixed and predetermined thing and looks at how identities are a product of our mass mediated culture. One aspect of identity involves invoking our difference from others (for example, Asian versus European). At the same time, identity is also a relationship. Identity is enmeshed in relations of power, be they of gender, race or religion. Through the writings of riot – affected children, Sant Kabir and others, the video makes a case for re – thinking of our differences and identities.
- Col /21 mins
- Languages: English-Hindi
- Contribution Rate: Rs.500
The Plot Thickens
This series of short videos is dedicated to the critical spirit in all of us. Whether it is a questioning of the notion of an objective reality (in ‘Dialogue’) and an instrumental language (in ‘Table, table and,) or an appreciation of how the media reproduce dominant relations of power in our culture, the attempt is to facilitate a rethinking of our relationship to the world around us. ‘Ideological Baggage’ explores the construction of gender in a television commercial, while ‘Packaged Desire’ examines the modus-operandi of advertising. ‘The Phantom Country’, ‘The Myth of Columbus’ and ‘A Taste of Fascism’ deal with various aspects of racism in the media.
- Col./15 mins.
- Languages-English – Hindi
- Contrition Rate: Rs. 500/-